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 * I share the honour with my cash,
 * with cook and steward-

MR. COTTON
 * Very well;
 * let's pledge a toast to all the four!

MONSIEUR BALLON
 * Monsieur, you have a gout, a ton
 * that nowadays is seldom met with
 * among men living en garcon,-
 * a certain-what's the word-?

VON EBERKOPF
 * A dash,
 * a tinge of free soul-contemplation,
 * and cosmopolitanisation,
 * an outlook through the cloudy rifts
 * by narrow prejudice unhemmed,
 * a stamp of high illumination,
 * an Ur-Natur, with lore of life,
 * to crown the trilogy, united.
 * Nicht wahr, Monsieur, 'twas that you meant?

MONSIEUR BALLON
 * Yes, very possibly; not quite
 * so loftily it sounds in French.

VON EBERKOPF
 * Ei was! That language is so stiff.-